Searching For The Question

One of the uniquely human characteristics is empathy, our capability of projecting ourselves in the place of others, in order to gain insight in their perspective, and motivations. Without a high degree of empathy we wouldn’t see other human beings as such, but as basically animate objects, and many of our most basic guides which [...]

iLabs Singularity Summit

Originally published in KuzweilAI News On Saturday, March 5, for the first time, a Singularity-related event will be held in Europe — at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy. Produced by Milan-based research institute iLabs(Wikipedia page here), the one-day, free iLabs Singularity Summit (not affiliated with the Singularity Institute’s Singularity Summit) will feature speeches [...]

Are you ready for IPv6? Did you know you’d better soon be ready? Is your ISP, or even country ready, and do they know?! If you don’t even know what IPv6 is, you are not alone. There are billions of people who don’t know, and they shouldn’t, since this fundamental protocol, which is the latest [...]

Here is reprinted from his Facebook note, Alex Lightman’s writing about why 4G networks deserve to win the first ever The Economist Innovation Conference Readers’ Award. Why 4G Networks Deserves Your Vote as the Innovation that will Most Influence the World over the Next Decade The Economist magazine is, for the first time, having a [...]

Human technological civilization existed on the planet for ten thousand years, and has had an effect strong enough all around for this period to be called the Antropocene by Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Krutzen. It is not exactly clear how people lived twenty or thirty thousand years ago, with idealistic views about communal sharing [...]

  The January 2010 issue of  Wired Italia. has a very nice article by Luca Sofri about Singularity University, and even more in depth about Ray Kurzweil, one of SU’s founders together with Peter Diamandis. Luca came to visit Singularity University at NASA Ames during the inaugural GSP-09 in July 2009, and went back to [...]

Photo by eschipul That you may spend in the year that comes and the ones after it those ten thousand hours that according to Malcolm Gladwell it takes to become truly expert in the field of your passion, even if new, even if it has nothing to do with your work now. Prepared to recognize [...]

Internet is not just a tool. Its effects are not neutral, and symmetrical for good, or evil. There is a net drift of beneficial consequences as people gain from it in expressing creativity, transparency, and communicate freely across the globe. On November 20 the official candidacy of the Internet and the people behind its development [...]

Image by david.orban via Flickr The Singularity University Executive Program just started this weekend and I will be lecturing in the Networks and Computing Systems track about the Internet Of Things, and holding a Spime Design Workshop. The program of nine weeks has been condensed—appropriately enough for a course talking about accelerating technologies—into just nine [...]